Racism – Climate Change Connections

The Racism-Climate Change Connections Working Group of CAN invites everyone to deepen your understanding of the connections between racism and climate change, and to be active in building a powerful climate justice movement. In order to stop climate change, we must address racism. Please use these pages to understand more about why this is true and how we can do this. Please join us as we learn together and become increasingly effective. To join the Working Group please email Russ at russvj@gmail.com.

Climate change is going to be the biggest cause of impoverishment, suffering and death for people of color all over the world for the remainder of this century. At the same time, racism keeps being used in the United States to elect politicians who refuse to take action to stop climate change. Racism also divides the climate movement and interferes with building a multi-racial movement powerful enough and inclusive enough to win the changes we need.

These goals were established in 2018 to guide the Working Group and provide an excellent overview of our work. Learn more about racism-climate change connections ourselves, and share our learning with CAN participants. Enable all CAN working groups and projects to use a racial lens as one of the ways we all look at each …